El jardí dels estels

Criatures (“Creatures”) and El jardí dels estels (“The Garden of the Stars”) are the titles of two shows that Italian masters Marcello Chiarenza and Alessandro Serena, heavyweights on the European New Circus scene, will present for the first time in Barcelona. New Circus drinks from the fountain of popular and traditional genres such as Commedia dell’Arte and classical circus, reworking them and fusing them with clown, acrobatics, dance and juggling. Experimentation is another key element, along with original music, which helps to present the story that is told on the stage, a narrative that explains the ultimate meaning of the whole show. Criatures, Arcipelago Circo Teatro production based on African acrobatic theatre arts, takes its inspiration from Saint Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures. Clocking up nearly 300 performances all over Europe before more than 150,000 spectators, the show has reaped enormous popular and critical acclaim. El jardí dels estels comprises a sequence of four pieces conceived especially for the Grec Festival and performed by a truly exceptional cast. According to the artists who created this “double bill”, the magic of the circus will find its dream space at the Teatre Grec, not only in the amphitheatre itself, but also in the surrounding gardens. The resulting show treats spectators (all those able or willing to go to bed after midnight are invited) to an evening rich in emotion, with one surprise following another to hold the audience in amazed thrall even after the performers have taken their last bow.